Re: [PATH nft v2 05/18] libnftables: add nft_run_command_from_buffer

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On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:21:06PM +0200, Eric Leblond wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 11:44 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:06:19AM +0200, Eric Leblond wrote:
[...]
> > In a nutshell: we provide a simple API for people that don't want to
> > deal with IO at all, that's good. Then, an API that allows people to
> > deal with IO themselves - advanced stuff. Simple API functions would
> > be made of composites of the advance ones.
> 
> OK, I'm good with this approach and it will please the "I'm afraid of
> netlink" club ;)

OK, so we agree on the API policy then.

[...]
> I think we can all have as a guideline for libnftables that all
> advanced things are going to the advanced functions. The simple
> functions must provide something appealing in term of features but have
> to remain really simple.

Fine with it.

> This make me think I still don't know how to deal with sets. I'm not
> planning to work on it but I think it is a feature that should be
> available in the simple functions. But we are dealing with possibly
> complex object so this can be really messy.

What's your concern with sets?
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